Sunday, 31 May 2015

Welcome back for another helping of 'Back in the Day' Soul n Funky stuff from Rare Groove City on the outskirts of East London.... its Soul Niceness 93!

We Kick off with an LP gem from British Soul Boys- Delegation, Curtis crops up with a track from '74 LP Got To Find a Way (my copy still has its cellophane cover on 40 years on!!), there's a Rare Groove anthem from Jeanie Reynolds, we've some Emotions, and end on an cut from the seminal Jermaine Jackson album Let's Get Serious plus more good tunes to rediscover.

Saturday, 23 May 2015

Eight tracks with that unmistakeable 80's feel to them including a big Cameo hit, a dancer from Ingram, some BBandQ, a Slave tune from the 1st post Arrington 1983 LP Bad Enuff , and ending on a gem from Ronnie McNeir who is still touring with the Four Tops.

I'm back in Rare Groove City next week (3rd exit on the A406, just before Ikea!) after SoulNRnB's midweek excursion.

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

The guys and girls on Facebook Group Music = Heart and Soul kindly selected a set of tunes for our latest #Requestline mix, the only caveat being that the tunes must be from the years 1981 - 1983. And they didn't let us down!

Some great 80's goodnes, from the likes of Leon Ware, Sheree Brown, GQ, Bernard Wright, and my favorite of them all, June Evans.

Check the song list and shout outs to the selectors in the Mixcloud Tracklist below and enjoy our latest selection of musical picks from the people them!!!!

Grizz returns at the weekend, lets hope his last excellent Summer Mix does not jinx the current good weather, at least here in the UK!

Sunday, 17 May 2015

Days are getting longer, thermometers slowly rising, kids are playing out... Summers arrived!!! Here's a serving of Soul n Jazz Funk with a sunshine feel to accompany those BBQs and long Summer evenings.... I'll have a flake in my cone with strawberry sauce please!

Earth Wind and Fire start us up, Webster Lewis has some getaway jazz-funk, Willie Hutch gives us a Summer nugget, we've 70's harmonies from the Reflections and end on a chilled out trip from Build an Ark perfect for lounging in the garden or park... plus more tunes to catch some rays to!

Sunday, 10 May 2015

Some more of the best of 70's and 80's Rare Groove and hard to find Soul. It's Soul Niceness 92!

We start with a real Soul nugget from 1970 and the Brothers Unlimited, Chaka channels Love Unlimited, there's a hard to find funky soul track from Carla Whitney, Eloise Laws from the talented Laws family brings us some magical Soul-jazz, Quincy Jones employs some vocal heavyweights in Leon Ware and Minnie Ripperton, and we end with some uplifting music from Fontella Bass.

Back with a Summer Soul special next week after Mr S does his midweek stuff.

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Welcome to the blog on this our Birthday week. As Grizz said in Sundays Post, its been 6 years. Thanks for visiting and checking out our selections both old and new.

Grizz went for a bit of both on Sunday, with newer cover versions of older tracks, but im firmly in the present with a soulful edition of our Street Sounds Sessions mixes.

This one features my fave tune from the current Hiatus Kaiyote LP, a track called "Footsteps"; Jill scott returns with another new tune in the shape of "Fools Gold"; Weve got the JAP ONLY bonus track from Brandon Williams excellent "XII" LP; Soulpersona & Princess Freesia give us a taste of things to come when they step back into 70's Soul territory with "When the Bough Breaks"; Plus the brand new track fromcover girl "Lianne La Havas and "Unstoppable".

Much more besides, be sure to press play below and stay tuned for Grizz's weekend mix.

Sunday, 3 May 2015

Welcome back in our Birthday week... 6 years old last Friday! Have a slice of Soul and Jazz cake to celebrate with a plate of cool cover versions.

We begin with an early version of Barbara Lewis' 1963 hit, blue eyed Soul boy Boz covers Aaron Neville, there's a 2014 version of the Quincy Jones Soul monster from drum legend Harvey Mason, a great little Latin take on the Mizzell Brothers penned gem, a stripped out Jap-Jazz Roy Ayers anthem, and ends on a jazz-funky Al Jarreau interpretation of George Duke.